I've been asked to help out someone who is slightly vurnerable and is 
receiving large volumes of spam. She is finding the content or titles a bit 
upsetting. Not being computer literate, she's probably unaware that it's 
"nothing personal" and that she is a random target along with hundreds of 
thousands of others.

I plan to have a chat with her and look at her setup and see if there's 
anything that I can do. Apart from some words of re-assurance I'd like to 
check for a few other things while I'm there; virus scan / spyware scan for 
example. However, on the spam issue all I know about is Linux and 
Spamassassin so I need to do some homeowork on what tools are available for 
the Microsoft platform. Could anyone provide me with any pointers or sites 
that might get me started? The only utility I've heard of is mailwasher and 
that seems to get mixed reviews. It's not my intention to start a long OT MS 
anti-spam thread; I'm really just looking for sites to start researching.

Thanks,

Dougie

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